u/thankstowelie

▲ 629 r/German

Now that I'm A2 I've noticed there's basically just three types German words:

  1. Identical to its English counterpart

  2. A very long literal description of what the thing is

  3. An unholy garbled mishmash of nonsense letters

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u/thankstowelie — 2 days ago

What is Smile Generation? I was looking for a local family owned practice, not a corporate chain, and I thought I found one but this Smile Generation logo is all over the place. Do they own practices or is this something else?

I'm hoping I don't have to switch dentists again, but this is making me nervous I got duped into thinking this was a small local practice!

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u/thankstowelie — 5 days ago
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Can someone tell me why these sentences have akkusativ case instead of dativ? I'm very confused

I was doing a quiz where you pick different words that fit whatever case they need to be. I chose the dativ versions for these but they got corrected to akkusativ. I'll note the corrected words in brackets.

Herbert füttert [dem (solution: die)] großen Hunde täglich in der Früh gegen Bezahlung.

and

Tereza liebt [ihren (solution: ihre)] Tiere sehr.

Aren't the dogs the ones who the feeding is being done to? Wouldn't that make them the indirect object? And aren't Tereza's animals the ones being loved? I feel like that would also make them the indirect object.

These cases are driving me mad, as expected haha

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u/thankstowelie — 11 days ago

My stacked washer dryer is in a small alcove in my home that the previous homeowners removed and reinstalled a section of the wall to put the dryer in. I cannot move the dryer without taking this part of the wall back out.

Is there a way to clean the duct from just the outside? If I run the dryer and use one of those drill attachments, will that still accomplish the same thing?

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u/thankstowelie — 25 days ago

My stacked washer dryer is in a small alcove in my home that the previous homeowners removed and reinstalled a section of the wall to put the dryer in. I cannot move the dryer without taking this part of the wall back out.

Is there a way to clean the duct from just the outside? If I run the dryer and use one of those drill attachments, will that still accomplish the same thing?

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u/thankstowelie — 25 days ago